Substituent Bride Novels & Stories

"You'll be dead within a year," her uncle said, signing her life away with a stroke of his pen. "But at least you'll finally be useful." Ivy Rowan had always been invisible. Starved, beaten, and silenced by the family that stole her inheritance. When her uncle's debts catch up to him, she becomes the payment. He sold her to Dorian Vale, the billionaire mafia lord cursed to bury every woman he marries. Twelve brides. Twelve graves. All within a year. Dorian doesn't expect his thirteenth bride to last any longer. She's fragile, flinches at every sound. Her weakness annoys him. She never fights back and barely speaks. But then he notices something strange. She doesn't fear him. And that wakes something in him he thought was long dead. It turns out the curse isn't supernatural. It's murder. Someone is killing the brides. And the killer has already chosen their next victim. Dorian has never saved anyone. Ivy has never been worth saving. Will Dorian's cold heart thaw in time to save her? Or will Ivy become the final victim of his curse?

Serra is a normal senior high school student who works really hard every night and weekend to pay off her parents' debts from loan sharks. But when she couldn't keep up with payments anymore, she decided to end her life. Surprisingly, she woke up in a different light-- in another world. What's more shocking was when she is addressed by one of the people as the demon king's bride.

BLURB Liana Hart never expected to wake up in 1438, inhabiting the body of a queen who tried to kill her husband. She never expected to meet the Raven King himself….handsome, commanding, and heartbreakingly human. And she certainly never expected to fall in love with him. Now, trapped in a world where betrayal is law and fate is ruthless, Liana must survive, protect the man she loves, and challenge the destiny that could destroy them both. History says he will be a tyrant. She refuses to let it happen.

From the beginning, it was clear what Avara Latimer's fate would be. Since her birth, every aspect of her life has been planned with precision. Avara's life was one of pure indulgence, with the villagers showering her with the best of everything to ensure the god's favor. However, there was an ulterior motive behind the gifts, and it wasn't given out of kindness. Her island home thrived with life, and to ensure its continuous abundance, she was chosen as a bridal sacrifice for the malevolent dragon god, Kagran, who lived up the mountains. But with rations running low and some of the villagers growing more resentful of her privileges, she knew it was only a matter of time before she would have to leave the village. And just as she had feared, her worst nightmare became a reality. On a cold winter's night they come and take her from her home, leaving her to brave the unforgiving mountains alone - a whole year before the sacrifice was planned.

Madiaah Is the first daughter of Mr Elfuego Carli. Her father is a run away drug lord who owed people money and has been on the loose, he's become a useless man and drinks his sorrows away and his daughter and their only son keeps getting into danger because of their father's problems. Her father decides that to save them, he had to sell his daughter to the rich Family of the Clyde's for marriage as it's the only way to protect her. Their Son Anthony Clyde is everything including a monster, just like how people describes him. Will her marriage to him be a fire to hell adventure or will broken meet a healer? Find out.

She was never supposed to be his bride. But now she’s the most dangerous thing he owns. Jackla spent her life hiding from pain, from power, from the name she was born with. After six years of running, she thought she’d found peace at last, ready to marry Ryan…the man who made her believe in love again in the human world. But on her wedding day, her twin sister walked in with a gun and murdered him. Now, forced to impersonate that same sister and arranged to marry a ruthless Alpha who wants a breeder, she steps into a world where one wrong move could cost her everything. Alpha Morano Salvatore is cold, cruel, and suspicious. He knows his bride is lying. She’s too careful and too obedient. But when masked gunmen attack on their wedding night, something inside her snaps. Light explodes. Death follows. And Morano finally sees what she truly is. Now he wants to control her. Because power like that… shouldn’t go to waste. But Jackla didn’t just come to be Luna. She came to rise…to the top. Only one of them will win. How far will Jackla go to protect her child, unlock her powers, and reclaim the life that was stolen from her?

One of them wants her dead; the other wants her alive. Whichever it is, the end is pretty certain to the woman who dies a pauper and is reborn as a powerful bride. Damnation. In flames of passion. ~~~ Quinn Parker meets an unfortunate end when she crosses paths with the terror of her city, mafia kingpin, hybrid charmer, Luciano Draven, and dangerous sparks fly between them. But after a deadly deal with his twice as charming twin, Adrien Draven, in the supernatural realm between life and death, a second chance is given to her. At a lethal, deadly cost that could upend her life again. What happens when she's caught in a web of lust, intense, crippling passion and betrayals between two brothers sworn to enmity and hatred? Does she take the path of life or death? Ready yourselves, hell is comin’.

“I can’t believe you just said that!” I burst out, staring at Ethan like he’d sprouted twenty extra heads. “You want me to... to pretend to be your girlfriend? What, like, fake holding hands? Fake kissing? Fake everything?” He didn’t blink as his nonchalant gaze met mine, a hint of a smirk playing on those lips. “Yes, Riley. That’s usually how fake dating works.” All Harper Adams wanted was to get through one evening pretending to be her best friend on a blind date. But when her date turned out to be Ethan Reynolds—her infuriatingly handsome CEO—things quickly spiraled out of control. Now, she’s caught in a whirlwind of fake romance to help him dodge his family’s relentless matchmaking schemes. Between awkward office run-ins and public displays of “affection” at high-society galas, Harper is discovering that fake dating might be a lot harder than she thought—especially when her feelings for Ethan start to feel all too real. With secrets piling up and hilariously disastrous moments at every turn, Harper’s left wondering: can she survive this charade, or will her fake love life blow up in her face?

Aria Hale was struggling to make money to cover her family’s growing debts. Xavier De Luca, a powerful and selective billionaire, had a strict preference when it came to women. Aria happened to meet his conditions, and the two made an agreement—she would stay by his side as his lover and stand-in wife, while he would take care of her financial problems.

Twenty years ago, a rainy night in New York stole everything from sienna Parker. Her father murdered, her mother abducted, and her childhood destroyed. Now living under a new name Alexis Brooks, she thrives behind a life of hacking, secrets, and crime. When a heist goes wrong, she’s captured and given a dangerous deal. The Infiltrate empire of the elusive and powerful Matteo Romano. A man surrounded by money, danger, and mystery or spend years behind bars. But as she gets closer to Matteo, buried memories resurface, and a shocking discovery links him to her family’s past…and to the masked stranger who once saved her life. Torn between revenge and a forbidden attraction, Alexis must choose, expose the truth and risk everything, or lose herself to the man who might be her greatest enemy.